50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind

3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?

Because we are caught up in the notion that life should be perfect. That we should craft our lives to be able to be tied up in a perfect little bow. That we should not make mistakes, or falter from a course we’re supposed to know the way on. When in reality, the most important things you can do is make mistakes, since without mistakes we wouldn’t grow and learn from our experiences. So we fear to do anything that could hurt us, or take us in a scary uncharted direction. And we continue down the beaten weathered path because others before us have convinced us that that’s the right way. When really we should be whipping out giant hatchets to set off on our own trail. But hatchets are scary, so we don’t.

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